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TheOut of Many Teaching and Learning Classroom Editionbrings together a wide array of assets to provide a completely integrated multimedia learning experience. This path breaking text weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region.The text's trademark continental approach has been expanded to incorporate a greater hemispheric perspective, while community and memory feature analyzes the role and the conflict of historical memory in shaping communities'understanding of the past.For individuals interested in United States history.

Maps

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Overview Tables

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Preface

xxv

About the Authors

xxix

Community & Diversity

xxx

A Continent of Villages, to 1500

2

(24)

American Communities: Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi

4

(1)

Settling the Continent

5

(3)

Who Are the Indian People?

5

(1)

Migration from Asia

5

(2)

Clovis: The First American Technology

7

(1)

New Ways of Living on the Land

8

(3)

Hunting Traditions

8

(1)

Desert Culture

9

(2)

Forest Efficiency

11

(1)

The Development of Farming

11

(6)

Mexico

11

(1)

The Resisted Revolution

12

(1)

Increasing Social Complexity

13

(1)

Farmers of the Southwest

14

(1)

The Anasazis

14

(1)

Farmers of the Eastern Woodlands

15

(1)

Mississippian Society

15

(1)

The Politics of Warfare and Violence

16

(1)

Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization

17

(5)

The Population of Indian America

17

(1)

The Southwest

17

(2)

The South

19

(1)

The Northeast

20

(2)

Conclusion

22

(1)

Summary

23

(1)

Review Questions

23

(1)

Key Terms

24

(1)

Recommended reading

24

(2)

When Worlds Collide, 1492--1590

26

(22)

American Communities: The English and the Algonquians at Roanoke

28

(1)

The Expansion of Europe

29

(6)

European Communities

29

(1)

The Merchant Class and the New Monarchies

30

(1)

The Renaissance

30

(2)

Portuguese Explorations

32

(1)

Columbus Reaches the Americas

32

(3)

The Spanish in the Americas

35

(6)

The Invasion of America

35

(1)

The Destruction of the Indies

36

(2)

Intercontinental Exchange

38

(1)

The First Europeans in North America

38

(1)

The Spanish New World Empire

39

(2)

Northern Explorations and Encounters

41

(4)

Fish and Furs

41

(1)

The Protestant Reformation and the First French Colonies

42

(1)

Sixteenth-Century England

43

(1)

Early English Efforts in the Americas

44

(1)

Conclusion

45

(1)

Summary

46

(1)

Review Questions

46

(1)

Key Terms

46

(1)

Recommended reading

47

(1)

Planting Colonies in North America, 1588--1701

48

(22)

American Communities: Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fe

50

(1)

Spain and Its Competitors in North America

51

(1)

New Mexico

51

(4)

New France

52

(2)

New Netherland

54

(1)

England in the Chesapeake

55

(1)

Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy

55

(2)

Tobacco, Expansion, and Warfare

55

(1)

Indentured Servants

56

(1)

Community Life in the Chesapeake

57

(1)

The New England Colonies

57

(1)

The Social and Political Values of Puritanism

57

(4)

Early Contacts in New England

58

(1)

Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact

58

(1)

The Massachusetts Bay Colony

59

(1)

Indians and Puritans

59

(1)

The New England Merchants

60

(1)

Community and Family in Massachusetts

60

(1)

Dissent and New Communities

61

(1)

The Restoration Colonies

61

(2)

Early Carolina

61

(1)

From New Netherland to New York

62

(1)

The Founding of Pennsylvania

63

(1)

Conflict and War

63

(4)

King Philip's War

64

(1)

Bacon's Rebellion

65

(1)

Wars in the South

65

(1)

King William's War

66

(1)

Conclusion

67

(1)

Summary

68

(1)

Review Questions

68

(1)

Key Terms

68

(1)

Recommended reading

69

(1)

Slavery and Empire, 1441--1770

70

(30)

American Communities: African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia

72

(1)

The Beginnings of African Slavery

73

(1)

Sugar and Slavery

73

(1)

West Africans

74

(1)

The African Slave Trade

74

(6)

The Demography of the Slave Trade

74

(1)

Slavers of All Nations

75

(1)

The Shock of Enslavement

75

(1)

The Middle Passage

76

(3)

Arrival in the New World

79

(1)

Political and Economic Effects on Africa

79

(1)

The Development of North American Slave Societies

80

(3)

Slavery Comes to North America

80

(1)

The Tobacco Colonies

80

(1)

The Lower South

81

(1)

Slavery in the Spanish Colonies

82

(1)

French Louisiana

82

(1)

Slavery in the North

82

(1)

African to African American

83

(6)

The Daily Life of Slaves

85

(1)

Families and Communities

85

(1)

African American Culture

86

(1)

The Africanization of the South

87

(1)

Violence and Resistance

88

(1)

Slavery and the Economics of Empire

89

(5)

Slavery the Mainspring

90

(1)

The Politics of Mercantilism

91

(1)

Wars for Empire

92

(1)

British Colonial Regulation

92

(1)

The Colonial Economy

92

(2)

Slavery and Freedom

94

(3)

The Social Structure of the Slave Colonies

95

(1)

White Skin Privilege

95

(2)

Conclusion

97

(1)

Summary

97

(1)

Review Questions

98

(1)

Key Terms

98

(1)

Recommended reading

98

(2)

The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700--1780

100

(30)

American Communities: From Deerfield to Kahnawake: Crossing Cultural Boundaries

102

(1)

North American Regions

103

(13)

Indian America

103

(1)

The Spanish Borderlands

104

(3)

The French Crescent

107

(2)

New England

109

(1)

The Middle Colonies

110

(1)

The Backcountry

111

(1)

The South

112

(1)

Traditional Culture in the New World

113

(1)

The Frontier Heritage

114

(2)

Diverging Social and Political Patterns

116

(5)

Population Growth and Immigration

116

(1)

Social Class

117

(2)

Economic Growth and Increasing Inequality

119

(1)

Contrasts in Colonial Politics

120

(1)

The Cultural Transformation of British North America

121

(5)

The Enlightenment Challenge

121

(1)

A Decline in Religious Devotion

122

(1)

The Great Awakening

123

(2)

The Politics of Revivalism

125

(1)

Conclusion

126

(1)

Summary

127

(1)

Review Questions

127

(1)

Key Terms

127

(1)

Recommended reading

128

(2)

From Empire to Independence, 1750--1776

130

(32)

American Communities: The First Continental Congress Shapes a National Political Community